06 May 2014

Do you use Microsoft, Twitter, Google, or Facebook credentials to log into 3rd party websites rather than create a new account? You may be vulnerable --

Facebook, Google users threatened by new security flaw | Fox News: "A serious flaw in two widely used security standards could give anyone access to your account information at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and many other online services. The flaw, dubbed "Covert Redirect" by its discoverer, exists in two open-source session-authorization protocols, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID. Both standards are employed across the Internet to let users log into websites using their credentials from other sites, such as by logging into a Web forum using a Facebook or Twitter username and password instead of creating a new account just for that forum...."Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Symantec Says "Antivirus Software Is Dead": "The overall message from security providers is: don't expect the security systems we sell will work. Individual consumers obviously cannot afford to pay Symantec, IBM or anyone else to assess the damage when software fails. The saving grace for individuals is that ambitious hackers primarily attack banks and retailers like Target, where if they break in, they can steal information on tens-of-thousands of credit cards or accounts at a time."Google and Amazon launch same-day delivery in LA areaLos Angeles TimesGoogle and Amazon are going head to head over Los Angeles shoppers, launching same-day delivery services in the area within days of each other.

VC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will | TechCrunch: "...Speaking at today’s TC Disrupt conference in NYC, he predicted that the top three tech companies, instead, will be Google, Facebook “and one that we’ve never heard of.” Why? Apple, he believes, is “too rooted to hardware,” with not enough tied into the cloud, and that will make it too much of a challenge for it to evolve going forward. “I think hardware is increasingly becoming a commodity,” he said. “Their stuff in the cloud is largely not good. I don’t think they think about data and the cloud.”..."

Now, 'cheaper, greener' solar cells that use tin instead of leadTimes of IndiaWASHINGTON: Researchers have developed a new solar cell with good efficiency that uses tin instead of lead perovskite as the harvester of light. The low-cost, environmentally friendly solar cell can be made easily using "bench" chemistry — no fancy ...